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Title: Candlelit Reflections: Volume 1 Author: Comrade Candle Date: 2022/09/28 Language: en Topics: anarchists; theft; shootings; gun control; expropriation Source: Retrieved on September 29, 2022 from [[https://outcastdistro.noblogs.org/post/2022/09/28/candlelit-reflections-volume-1-by-comrade-candle/]]
Many anarchists are quite content to live in the shadows. To don the
mask for a joyous occasion, perhaps a traditional protest or the more
spectacular black bloc demonstration. These types live a luxurious lie,
no doubt. A double life, precariously balancing upon the hope none will
unearth their anarchist inclinations.
For some, this becomes an impossibility without publicly disparaging the
cause. You are captured at an event, thrust into the public eye. A
fascist obtains your personal information, possibly contacting your
family or employer. I know you are afraid, comrade, and that should not
be. For us to have our masks stripped, or even to do so voluntarily, we
must grasp the power we each individually posses to form an anarchistic
existence in our immediate present. To try and will things as they once
were will only end in grief.
Why must we hide? Do the moralists offend you? Are you burdened with the
attacks of respectability and posturing demanded? Have the terroristic
threats from the fascist cause dealt their mark?
I have found far more joy with the mask pulled off my face, a true test
of my drive and devotion. Every authority figure wants to put their
words in my mouth, instead I get to embarrass them (at times, show their
sympathies). I can be blunt, and I am afforded infinite more
opportunities for propaganda. Sometimes merely by existing. The state
will not kill me. Instead I will show you all how scared the state is of
us seeing through the veil.
Nihilism has been my liberator – nothing truthfully matters. Why did I
not yet live – I saw. When you have a foot in what is, when you feel you
have something to lose: does propagating the conditions of capitalism ad
nauseum, does existing merely to at one moment behold an aesthetical
anarchist spectacle, really speak truth to your life? You should die by
the sword, not bow to it. You should live as an anarchist, not merely
aspire for anarchy to be.
A mask is a tool, as I see it its use is not mere social – do not take
my words as opposition to crime. One is often emboldened by the comfort
of anonymity, how it allows a daring voice to lead a boring life. Don’t
let capitalist comforts rock you to sleep, with the lullaby of a
revolution to come. Anarchy is not an apple to be taken from a tree when
ripe. It is not an aesthetic to be donned for spectacular photography.
Then again, maybe to you it is.
Are you committed to the Anarchist cause? Lets confront the causes of
your fright. We should not be forced to hide. Must every newcomer to the
cause hide in the shadows? I assure you, the state is likely already
privy to your inclinations – why not make a better existence for those
to come? I’d like for you to not cower in fear, as many are told to do.
I am as in the open as one could hope to be. Sure, I’ve lost my freedom,
and I can not yet speak of life. Why does that matter? I can still speak
of my principles, my ideals, with fervor – I will not blame myself for
the state’s icy wrath. The state will not see its end by cowering in the
shadows. If you will not be proudly anarchist, then know that here I
lie.
No lie creepeth from my lips – I am an anarchist.
The saying goes, very literally, to vote with one’s wallet. Really? As
if I deny something funding, it ceases to exist? The police would still
exist, they would be able to acquire resources, capital as it were, in
other ways. Do we want policing to devolve, perhaps more so, into
producing profit? We want total abolition. How is defunding,
accomplishing this goal?
What of the terror and harm police are able to cause with minimal
funding? Would a defunded police have murdered Jayland Walker with fewer
bullets? WAs funding the cause, the allowing factor, in Derek Chauvin’s
serial brutality, in George Floyd’s death? Do I need to list
each-and-every police murder? Their goal, purpose, is to enact violence
on the civilian populace, to coerce the poor into complacency, to kill
those who defy the State’s will.
Its never about stopping crime – its about instilling fear, obedience.
Maintaining a police means authority is taken as truth; authority
existing at all, having power, institutional or social, affirms their
seat, their position, gives authoritative control. You want a badge and
the orders, demands, lack of consent that come with it; just that it not
be as reprehensible as the star-spangled slavemasters. I desire the
complete abolition of rule, ergo law. I want freedom, not just defunded
tyrants that can still threaten me – no tyrants. An end to tyranny means
an end to policing in any form.
Say I took away the horses and swords of a King’s loyal soldiers, as
example. Would he not still posses a group of loyal servants who command
his authority, his law? Even weakened, even lessened in numbers, police
defunded exist.
If you are insistent on the need to defund rather than abolish, if your
calls to defund aren’t part of a project of abolition, you assert a need
for authority, a need for state-sanctioned violence. Those the police
label bad, evil, unjust, will be faced with the righteous violence of
the court.
Must we kill Socrates all over again? Have we learned nothing of being
ruled by majority and morality at all? The most liberal, democratic,
impoverished police are still police.
Theft is Good
I love to take what ought to be mine
To rob and loot from capitalist swine
Death to all of bourgeois society
Vive l’Anarchie!
Gimme. You’ve got such excess, babe – you want me to trade my being for
your food? Oh, for paper. Same fucking shit. I’m here to take what I
need. You don’t get to order that I starve, you won’t get to deny me
life.
You sit upon your piles of accumulated wealth. Of course its fucking
joyous, you damn near all to suffer. I’m here to take what’s mine,
through deception or force. You commit acts of violence everyday by
deceiving folks on what you own. Even acquiring what you claim has
amounted to mere chance or sheer sociopathic greed. Oh, but you’re
smart? You’ll still bleed.
It must be terrible to order others labor to your benefit. So terrible
that I take what I need. I’ll still do it. I don’t give a shit about
you. You reap what you sow; I have no empathy for tyrants. Give it to me
babe, i’m not here for you to say no. The capitalistic hellscape you
cater to, reproduce, doesn’t really ask politely. I’m here to take
“your” shit. It’s mine.
You expect me to suffer without, so you may live in excess? Can you
repeat that with a knife to your throat, or are you aware of what you
demand? Don’t talk, just hand it over. I’ll take what you’ve tried to
declare as yours, and all of mine you’ve tried to take for it. Well I
need only to take yours, but I’m alluding to something here.
You’d rob me of any life, and make me call it honest, were I not to rob
you of what’s mine. An honest day’s robbery – mine. Your property is
mine.
You’re not as powerful as you look, is that why you cower under the
apron of the state? You’re in for a rude awakening when our civilization
collapses, when the state crumbles. If all you know how to do is exploit
others, do you expect things to continue as they’ve been without your
strong arm? I’m already tired of it.
I want what is within my power to take. I want my own. I want the whole
world, I’m not going to have it handed to me.
I am a thief.
Welcome to the golden age of mass shootings.
American heroes like Robert Crimo pursue the American Dream in the end
stage of the commodification of human life- God’s not dead!
Law is failing to halt this rise in civilian slaughter. The state is
opportunistically pushing to militarize schools or impose gun
legislation. Will anything halt the carnage? Clearly for 77 minutes, the
police won’t.
For next to nothing, a drop in the bucket, the disenfranchised,
radicalized white youth can take life into their hands. Rather than be a
nobody, a cog in the terrible existence they’ve beholden, a few
magazines, a firearm, and the lack of empathy bred by capitalism are all
one needs: week up week of news coverage await, and a much more fun time
than wage slavery, school.
The glory of a mass shooter; a school shooter. Ramos will be remembered,
even if only as a the Uvalde shooter, gunman, for time eternal. Mass
shootings, to a very particular group, are glorified – the motivation is
there. Can you not say you’ve seen mass, school shooting fetishism? Its
online, mostly, sure. The results aren’t. Mass shooters will be
remembered; you can try to rescind their names, but they’ll be
remembered. We are in the golden age of mass shootings, where a cult
fanbase keeps score and memorializes their fallen success stories, the
shooters themselves.
We’ve reached a point where even just being “The Parkland Shooter” or
“The Robb Elementary Shooter” sure beats being “The Janitor”, “The
Chef”, or worse yet, “The Student.”
Your life, your creed, is in your hands – you know there’ll be others
just like you. You are a mass shooter, knowing the normies will hate
you; you have fans.
One of the most easily observable trends in mass shooting? – They’ve
continued. Another? They’re defining moments in local history, sometimes
national or global.
What marks this as the golden age for this niche breed of serial killer?
Beyond the following, the notoriety, the culture, hell – the mass
shooter pipeline? Well, I think two recent shootings, perhaps three if
we are willing to accept mass shootings are inherently acts of fascism,
paint the picture well.
Peyton slaughtered black civilians in an almost distinctly American
fashion – right wing militancy. His act was designed to maximize harm to
the black community, to the last detail. An everyday place was his
target, it was all livestreamed, and most importantly, he targeted a
predominantly black community. His attack, in closing tops exasperated
the availability of food in the area. Basically until he took his plunge
into the mass shooter hall of fame, he kept in close contact with an
online group. He is the result of the mass shooter, or perhaps the
alt-right, pipeline; PogChamp?
What can we take away from this? Well, a few things, but as there is
overlap, lets get a larger picture.
Ramos hada cold disdain for life, he took his act as good, using it to
flirt with girls prior to his murders. The specifics of his killing
spree, that he murdered his family, took the family car, targeted a
school, parallel the most notoriously “meme worthy” shooting – “Don’t go
to the cafeteria today”. He’s been one of the younger modern school
shooters, really showing the sheer speed at which the pipeline can scoop
up kids, making them into weapons for the cause. His kill count, the
length of time his shooting lasted. You will hear about Uvalde for a
while, maybe forever, and, in whatever capacity you do – it’ll be
because of him.
Robert Crimo the 3rd, the July 4th shooting. This shooting really
epitomizes mass shootings, his rap career stocked with school scenery,
his god-fearing art, and most importantly: he escaped the scene. His
murder spree nearly extended from one event to the next, only halting
due to his own willingness. I’m coming out of the closet and into the
street, Robert showed just how much of a cat-and-mouse game being a
serial killer is. Should his successor know how to steal a new car, to
act with more speed and determination?
Killing sprees are not new, though the state is the only entity able to
do it, justly, time and time again.
God has made – the school shooter –a plan, to work in His own, unique
way. God loves his children: some are slaughtered like poultry, by his
design, at their must vulnerable, and others go on to a life of serial
killer stardom, infamy. God Bless America.
Mass shootings are a cornerstone of American culture, American life,
American capitalism.
All is in place for one to be nurtured into a new serial killer, a mass
shooter, by online sociopaths. Every mass shooting has evolved the mass
shooting culture: more carnage, more planning, self-referential.
Disregarding human life?
Happy July 4th.